Ed McCaffrey, former wide receiver for the Denver Broncos, will emcee the Sporting Affair Celebrity Waiters Dinner that begins with a hosted cocktail hour and silent auction at 6 p.m. at Infinity Park Event Center in Glendale. Dinner, entertainment and a live auction follows.

Tickets are $150 each, $65 of which is tax deductible. Sponsorships begin at $2,500. For details, call Patti Forsythe, 303-750-9474.

Other sports figures scheduled to appear are Avalanche announcer Peter McNab; Omar Cummings, Kosuke Kimura and Wells Thompson of the Colorado Rapids; University of Denver hockey coach George Gwozdecky; professional triathlete Will Kelsay; and Gerry Signorelli of Kuryakan Racing.

The money raised will be used to grant wishes of Colorado children with life-threatening medical conditions. Each wish costs an average of $7,500, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation grants an average of 250 wishes annually in Colorado. Make-A-Wish Colorado was established in 1983 and is one of the nation’s first Make-A-Wish Foundation chapters. It has granted nearly 3,600 wishes to date.

Study after study has shown that when it comes to charitable fundraisers, Denver has more per capita than any comparably sized city in the nation. Joanne Davidson has been covering them for The Denver Post since 1985, coming here from her native California where she'd spent the previous seven years as San Francisco bureau chief for U.S. News & World Report magazine.